24 What or whom does Satan fear?

Satan fears the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The Christian churches are of little concern to Satan, except for the possibility the Church will come to realize the importance of its own crucifixion—the crucifixion of self—so the life of the Church becomes the Life of Christ.

When the saints lay down their lives and allow Christ to govern them as Lord, the Kingdom of Satan is finished; destroyed utterly; terminated absolutely. Its memory is removed from the heavens and the earth.

The victorious saints are those Christians who allow the death of the cross to enter their personalities, into the marrow of their bones, so The Overcomer, Christ, can assume His lawful throne as Lord of their lives. Then Satan is destroyed—first in them and then in their surroundings.

How can you as a Christian believer recognize Satan and avoid being deceived by Antichrist? Satan will exhort you, with all kindness and concern for your feelings and your welfare (just as did Peter with the Lord Jesus—Matthew 16:22), not to face the cross of Christ. Satan will counsel you that the cross is too cruel. God never would require such self-denial of you!

If you pay attention to the voice of Satan you will be deceived. You will find yourself eventually in pain and terror. If you attempt to make Christianity a pleasant religion in which you can have a prosperous, contented life in the world you will lose your Christian testimony.

The true saint has been crucified to the world and the world has been crucified to him. The conquering saint views the present world only from his position on the cross. He is a dead-living man. She is a dead-living woman. His or her life is Christ and the self-life is hanging from the cross.

Satan will plead continually: Come down from the cross. Save yourself if you are a son of God. This suffering is not for you. God has called you to pleasant paths. How can this be God’s will when you are being treated so cruelly; when your future is filled with dread, with cold, bleak, hardness and hostility?"

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